Role Overview
Reporting to the Vice President, Engineering, the Director, Engineering is accountable for all engineering disciplines during design, detailed engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning phases of the Rook I Project. The Director, Engineering will manage overall engineering delivery, including planning and monitoring of all engineering services providers. The role ensures technical excellence, schedule adherence, resource alignment, and integration across engineering functions to meet project and corporate objectives.
This role requires leadership and technical stewardship to ensure the successful design, construction, and operation of the project, while optimizing performance and maintaining the highest standards of safety, environmental stewardship, and regulatory compliance.
Location
The role will be based in our Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Project Office with regular trips to the Project Site.
Location
The role will be based in our Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Project Office with regular trips to the Project Site.
Key Responsibilities
(Including but not limited to)
- Oversee and coordinate all the engineering requirements for the Project, including all discipline engineering and managing the engineering service providers.
- Lead the engineering services team including in-depth review and approval of engineering service provider deliverables on behalf of NexGen including coordination of their work, tracking progress, and ensuring that objectives are met.
- Ensure that engineering is effectively integrated across various engineering providers.
- Interface and coordinate with all relevant NexGen stakeholders including the Compliance, Environmental, and Health & Safety teams.
- Coordinating to ensure that HAZOPs and operations and maintenance reviews are in the design.
- Establish requirements for the handover of technical deliverables to NexGen, in collaboration with the operations team.
- Provide timely review and response to RFI’s received by NexGen from the engineering consultants and other providers.
- Technical evaluation of proposals and tenders.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in engineering. P.Eng is required and being a currently certified Qualified Person would be preferred.
- A minimum of 20 years of Engineering in Project Delivery experience.
- Strong experience managing engineering service providers in mega capital greenfield projects.
- Proven leadership experience managing multidisciplinary engineering teams.
- Proficiency with engineering management systems including document controls.
Core Competencies
Communication
- Communicates in an open candid and consistent manner with impact to inform, enroll, coach, and inspire.
- Effectively builds rapport and appropriately delivers information (oral and written) in a timely, well-organized, thoughtful, and engaging manner.
Team Effectiveness
- Works collaboratively across functional teams, embracing unique talents and diverse perspectives, to achieve common goals.
- Takes a proactive approach to building relationships by actively participating as a prepared team member, demonstrating flexibility and respect for different work styles.
Work Management
- Plans, manages and follows through to ensure the flow and timely completion of activities to deliver successful work results.
- Maintains quality and safety standards to ensure NexGen's Elite Standards are met across all work streams.
- Demonstrates flexibility and adaptability.
Personal Accountability
- Takes responsibility for own actions and outcomes.
- Maintains effective and professional approach, demonstrating resilience and accountability in a fluid fast paced work environment.
Analytical/Critical Thinking
- Able to identify, articulate and problem solve for complex situations with consideration for outcomes.
- Provides clear and informative explanations to support effective decisions in line with company objectives.
- Uses creative, conceptual, and/or inductive reasoning.
Functional & Technical Skills
- Applies specialized knowledge in own area of expertise and openly shares information and knowledge with others.
About NexGen
NexGen Energy is a Canadian company focused on optimally developing the Rook I Project into the largest, low-cost producing uranium mine globally, incorporating the highest levels of environmental and social governance. The Company has a strong portfolio of highly prospective projects, including the Company's 100% owned Rook I property that is host to the high-grade Arrow Deposit (discovered February, 2014), South Arrow (discovered July, 2017), Harpoon (discovered August, 2016), Bow (discovered March, 2015), and the Cannon area (discovered April, 2016).
NexGen is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NXE and on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker symbol NXG, and is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with an operations office in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.